Free Rainer
Drama | AUT, GER | 2007 | 110 min
SYNOPSIS
TV producer Rainer has it all: big salary, luxurious penthouse, high life, hot car, even hotter girlfriend. The 30-something go-getter has reached the top by creating TV shows of the most stupid and vulgar kind. One day, mysterious young woman Pegah vengefully drives full speed into his car. After this near-death experience, Rainer has a major change of heart and – teaming up with the beautiful Pegah and a gang of unemployed social misfits – he sets out to prove that a conspiracy surrounds the boxes used in select households to estimate audience percentage. Determined to fight television’s dumbing down of society, Rainer and his new friends eventually go all the way with an intricate and ingenious plan to get the public interested in quality cultural programs. But the station execs who live off audience hunger for brainless TV are not willing to give up what they have ruthlessly built over the years…
CAST
Moritz Bleibtreu
Elsa Sophie Gambard
Milan Peschel
Simone Hanselmann
Gregor Bloeb
CREW
Director Hans Weingartner
Screenplay Hans Weingartner, Katharina Held
Director of Photography Christine A. Maier
Art director Udo Kramer
Costume Thomas Oláh
Line producer Karsten Aurich, Bruno Wagner
Producer Hans Weingartner, Antonin Svoboda
Production coop99, kahuuna films